Fallback weapon
Tools concept
Player has a basic weapon, attack, or other equivalent that goes largely unused except in emergencies when ammo for primary weapon(s) runs out. Commonly too weak to use as primary weapon though and equally commonly tends to have unlimited ammo if ranged.
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games
32platforms
Alternate names: Emergency weapon, Backup weapon
WIN 2010-12-20
DOS 1994
DOS 1995
32X 1995-08-03
LIN TBA 2014
WIN 2005-02-15
WIN 2010
NEO 2000-06
WIN 2013-05
PS2 2005-06-21
XBOX1 2020-03-20
WIN 2013-06-25
Related:
* Unlimited ammo - makes existence of emergency weapons pointless.
* Energy regeneration - may cause above.
* Unlimited ammo - makes existence of emergency weapons pointless.
* Energy regeneration - may cause above.
Players commonly start with this but gain better weapons very soon (usually depending on the genre how fast).
Also cases of infinite supply of darts, throwing stars, arrows, bolts, or similar. Thrown weapons that return included, unless they can get stuck or otherwise fail to return (and not because of a bug).
If ammo count is shown somewhere, it usually holds the infinity symbol (∞) instead of any real count.
Weapon with these properties gained late in the game does NOT count.
Also cases of infinite supply of darts, throwing stars, arrows, bolts, or similar. Thrown weapons that return included, unless they can get stuck or otherwise fail to return (and not because of a bug).
If ammo count is shown somewhere, it usually holds the infinity symbol (∞) instead of any real count.
Weapon with these properties gained late in the game does NOT count.
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The first Fallback weapon video game was released on November 16, 1986.
SNK, Sega and Eidos Interactive published most of these games.